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Tornadoes have killed more than 500 people this year and that makes this the deadliest tornado season since 1953 and the question i ve had so many times, meteorologist reynolds wolf, is why? why now? why so many? why so many deaths? the thing that s interesting about it is the reason why we have so many deaths is because these storms, these tornadoes, are hitting highly populated areas. that s the number one issue we re having. when it comes to numbers, frequency of these tornadoes, the problem we re running into is we ve only been keeping track of these the last 40, 50 years. if you go back to a planet that s 4.6 billion years old, we ve got a lot of storms and tornadoes over that time since the earth started. we ve got just a tiny snapshot. i m telling you as long as we ve been keeping records, it s been very active. the reason why, there are a lot of reasons but two biggest players and two distinctively different air masses. humid air from gulf of mexico. that s going to march to ....
Ireports that we share with viewers worldwide but we capture these more than ever before and that makes it numbers seem higher. fascinating stuff. all right. thanks, reynolds. the federal government has offered the storm victims trailers to live in while their homes are being rebuilt but in one alabama town they re being turned away. what i had suggested doing was putting fema trailers in my backyard. because of the mayor, we can t do that. we can t help our neighbors because he won t let us. you heard right. the mayor is saying thanks but no thanks to fema s help and in 60 seconds i ll tell you why. ....
this memorial day weekend. here s the latest on one of the nation s deadliest tornadoes. 156 people are missing as of this morning down from 232 the day before. searchers are still going through piles of debris. the confirmed death toll stands at 132 with over 1,000 injured. more than 2,500 people have applied for federal disaster assistance to help with home repairs and personal losses. fema has approved $2.8 million in aid. president obama is returning from his overseas trip today and will meet with officials and victims in joplin tomorrow. rebuilding the city of nearly 50,000 people is going to require a lot of money and a lot of muscle. our casey wian is in joplin and he talked with one man who is rebuilding his wife s business. reporter: when you cover a story like this, you have a lot of images and most are gruesome and bad. i ll remember driving around one of the streets in joplin amid utter devastation and there s this building that s brand new wood and co ....
wide tornado roared through joplin, missouri, more than 100 people are unaccounted for on this memorial day weekend. here s the latest on one of the nation s deadliest tornadoes. 156 people are missing as of this morning down from 232 the day before. searchers are still going through piles of debris. the confirmed death toll stands at 132 with over 1,000 injured. more than 2,500 people have applied for federal disaster assistance to help with home repairs and personal losses. fema has approved $2.8 million in aid. president obama is returning from his overseas trip today and will meet with officials and victims in joplin tomorrow. rebuilding the city of nearly 50,000 people is going to require a lot of money and a lot of muscle. our casey wian is in joplin and he talked with one man who is rebuilding his wife s business. reporter: when you cover a story like this, you have a lot of images and most are gruesome and bad. i ll remember driving around one of the stree ....
this is where the water level reached in 73. reporter: 73. yep. that was part of the wall that held it back. reporter: now a 22-foot wall protects historic downtown morgan city. it will be water all the way. it will touch this wall and extend to that wall over there. reporter: you re confident about these walls holding up? i have to be. yes. have to be. reporter: and if for whatever reason they fail? total catastrophe. this entire city would flood. reporter: national guard soldiers are building up levees around town, and it seems like everyone in these neighborhoods has a boat many the driveway ready to go. gerald will stay on the back porch. you ll silt back here and watch the water creep up? pull my chairs over here and sit here and watch, maybe catch some fish. reporter: ed lavandera, cnn, morgan city, louisiana. our reynolds wolf is with us now. roenz, tell us more about the ....